1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Beswick

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Uxbridge

CANDIDATE : Beswick

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Beswick, who won Uxbridge in 1945, is the son of a Nottinghamshire miner. He fought his first election at the age of 22 as Labour candidate for a seat on the London County Council. He has travelled extensively in Europe and visited Spain during the civil war. During the war he served in the R.A.F. He was one of the two M.P.s who witnessed the atom bomb explosion at Bikini.

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